Dashboard Designer in Pentaho BI version 3

Today Pentaho released version 3 of their BI suite Enterprise Edition. Apart from a few bug fixes, majority of the functionality is the same as that available in Enterprise Edition version 2 (previous post). One significant addition is the self-service dashboard designer.

Self Service Dashboards

Along with the adhoc report and adhoc analysis, you can now create an adhoc dashboard.

Dashboards

Creating dashboards is extremely simple. All you need to do is select a dashboard title, layout design, and appropriate theme. Once that is done, you can select the content of each of the components of the dashboard. This content can be a chart, report, or an analysis. The dashboard content can be filtered using a criteria selecting drop down filter.

Dashboard Designer

Using this new functionality, business users can now create rich dashboards on the fly.